Afghanistan Content Report

March 8–14, 2025

Please note that all items in this issue concern ISIS-K

Table of contents

1. ISIS Al-Naba Newsletter Edition 486, Published March 13, 2025
2. Pro-ISIS Online Chatter
3. ISIS Amaq/Nashir Statements

Main points (Pro-ISIS Online Chatter)

Afghanistan

• A Taliban soldier who used to steal from private homes “under the pretext of searches” has been arrested in Kabul.

Pakistan

• ISIS killed a police officer and an alleged Pakistani spy in Mamumd, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
• The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) took approximately 400 people hostage in a passenger train between Quetta and Peshawar.

1. ISIS Al-Naba Newsletter Edition 486, Published March 13, 2025

• “Assassination of a Pakistani police officer and a spy in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.”

“Soldiers of the Caliphate in Khorasan Province killed a Pakistani police officer and an intelligence spy in a security operation this week in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, near the Afghan-Pakistani border. In detail, by the grace of God Almighty, on Tuesday (11 Ramadan), the soldiers of the Caliphate targeted a police officer and a spy for Pakistani intelligence in the village of Mamund in the Bajaur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with pistol bullets, which led to their deaths, praise be to God.”

2. Pro-ISIS Online Chatter

• March 9: Pro-ISIS post on Telegram claiming that a Taliban soldier who used to steal from private homes “under the pretext of searches” has been arrested in Kabul. The post claimed the arrested individual had a “13-year history of theft.” 

“#Report. Some of the dozens of militia thieves in Kabul who used to commit armed robberies from houses under the pretext of searches and other terms have been arrested!

“It is said that he has a 13-year history of theft, and the militia intelligence, interior affairs, and defense ministries have confirmed this history.”

• March 11: Pro-ISIS post on Telegram stating that ISIS killed a police officer and an alleged Pakistani spy in Mamumd, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. ISIS claimed credit for this attack the same day.

“#Pakistan. Terrorists assassinated a police officer and a Pakistani intelligence informant in the village of Mamund in the Bajaur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.”

• March 11: Pro-ISIS post on RocketChat containing information on the hostage crisis on a train in Balochistan, Pakistan.

3. ISIS Amaq/Nashir Statements

• March 11: ISIS claims to have killed a Pakistani police officer and an individual accused of working as a spy for Pakistani intelligence in Mamund, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

“By the grace of God Almighty, the soldiers of the Caliphate targeted a police officer and a spy for the apostate Pakistani intelligence agency with pistol bullets in the village of Mamund in the Bajaur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, leading to their deaths. Praise be to God.”